Founder Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Ilon Mask announced plans to do media business. Initially, in his Twitter businesswoman wrote a concise tweet "Thud!", Later specifying that it was the name of his "new intergalactic media empire". The businessman added that it is not necessary to put an exclamation mark in the company name.
Later, the representative of Mask confirmed in an interview with Variety plans of a businessman to create a company with this name. Other details of the project he did not disclose. At the same time, the address of thud.com has already been reserved in the database of registration of GoDaddy domains, the publication notes.
The Verge notes that Mask previously planned to buy a site for fake news The Onion. Earlier, he also hired several of his key employees, including former chief editor of The Onion Cole Bolton and executive editor Ben Berkeley. Journalists themselves told The Daily Beast that they would be engaged in a "new comedy project".
It is quite obvious that comedy is the next frontier after electric vehicles, space exploration and neurointerfaces. I do not know how you can ignore this, Mask commented on his plans.
Mask is the founder of private space company SpaceX, the manufacturer of electric vehicles Tesla, and also participates in the work of Neuralink, which develops neurointerfaces for connecting the brain to the computer. Another project entrepreneur - The Boring Company, which is building an underground tunnel near Los Angeles .